The tour is visiting farmers in east-central Texas, Georgia, Tennessee, and wrapping up in West Texas. With every pass, and every turn, cotton harvest produced surprises for Mac Kutzenberger ...

Plus, farmers may also be discouraged as the cotton market saw the most volatile trading conditions in over a decade in 2022 and the biggest annual price drop since 2014. In fact, Payne thinks ...

Mathias Azonnoudo, a 50-year-old farmer in Benin, was taking a break sitting on a large pile of freshly picked cotton, which the Beninese government hopes will feed the country’s nascent textile ...